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Pulmonary vein angioplasty and stenting successfully treated two patients presenting with massive hemoptysis secondary to post-ablation pulmonary vein stenosis.
Pulmonary vein angioplasty and stenting can be an effective treatment for massive hemoptysis secondary to pulmonary vein stenosis following cardiac ablation.
May support angioplasty for hemoptysis in pulmonary vein stenosis; hypothesis-generating and requires larger trials before practice change.
Two patients with history of cardiac ablation presented with massive hemoptysis secondary to pulmonary vein stenosis. They underwent successful pulmonary vein angioplasty and stenting. Although the second patient ended up having a lobectomy, the successful opening of the Left Superior Pulmonary Vein helped sparing the superior lobe and lingula.
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Akiki et al. (2022) studied this question. Pulmonary vein angioplasty and stenting successfully treated two patients presenting with massive hemoptysis secondary to post-ablation pulmonary vein stenosis.
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